(Reuters) – A BT Group Plc executive has called for the United States to require its telecommunications companies to allow access to their networks at regulated prices, similar to rules in place in the United Kingdom, the Financial Times reported on Sunday. Bas Burger, president of the British company’s Americas unit, told the newspaper that a lack of regulation has hampered competition in the United States, where AT&T Inc and
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Wall Street dropped on Monday in tumultuous action as traders aggressively sold stocks and bid-up only the safest asset classes.
If losses in the U.S. stock market worsen, keep in mind there might be a 15-minute break. The New York Stock Exchange said it will halt trading for 15 minutes if the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index drops 7 …
There are a few things to consider as red fills quote screens this morning.
The FTSE 100 slumped to its lowest level in almost three years on Monday, with all individual stocks in the red and miners leading the slide on growing fears of a China-led global economic slowdown. Alarm bells rang across world markets after a 9 percent dive in Chinese shares and a sharp drop in the dollar and major commodities panicked investors. “There is a snowball effect happening, with margin calls
Well, that was fun while it lasted. For years, investors in U.S. stocks shrugged off threats — a government shutdown, fear of a euro collapse, a near U.S. debt default — and just kept on buying. At the …
The New York Stock Exchange invoked Rule 48 on Monday in an effort to speed up and smooth trading at the market open, as exceptionally high volatility is expected. Futures snapshot at 8:59 a.m. EDT: * …
Shares of tech giant Apple broke below $100 a share in premarket trading on Monday as a global sell-off in equities continued.
European stocks slumped on Monday after a rout in Chinese markets, wiping hundreds of billions of euros off leading shares and sending one benchmark index to a seven-month low. The pan-European FTSEurofirst …
